Galileo

    Galileo
    1975

    Synopsis

    Challenged by a new student, tutor and theorist Galileo co-opts emerging telescope technology and discovers irrefutable proof of the heretical notion that the earth is not the center of the universe. But in a rigid society ruled by an uneasy alliance of aristocracy and clergy already undermined by the Plague and the Reformation, science is a threat and enlightenment is a luxury. Faced with either death at the hands of the Inquisition or recantation to a hypocritical but all-powerful Papacy, Galileo must choose between his own life and the restless scientific curiosity that he has spurned family, friends, and wealth to pursue.

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    Cast

    • TopolGalileo Galilei
    • Edward FoxCardinal Inquisitor
    • Colin BlakelyPriuli
    • Georgia BrownBallad Singer's Wife
    • Clive RevillBallad Singer
    • Margaret LeightonElderly Court Lady
    • John GielgudThe Old Cardinal
    • Michael GoughSagredo
    • Michael LonsdaleCardinal Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII)
    • Richard O'CallaghanFulganzio

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